Love optimistically and faithfully perseveres. (For love there is no hopeless case. Love has a tenacity in the present, buoyed by its absolute confidence in the future, that enables one to live in every kind of circumstance and continually to pour oneself out in behalf of others.) The application, is focused on the question: Is it guaranteed that God will sanctify His people? Answer? Yes! 1 Thess 5:23-24.